His comments have set off alarm bells in various Quebec regions and logging towns, many of which have economies built on ...
B.C. Forests Minister Steve Thomson has overruled recommendations from his own advisory board on log exports dozens of times in the past three months, electing to send millions of dollars worth of raw ...
Sinclar Group Forest Products says about 350 employees will have their hours cut by 40 per cent as it scales back production ...
VANCOUVER ISLAND BC: JUNE 12, 2021 – Old-growth forest atop of the Fairy Creek Watershed near Port Renfrew B.C on June 12, 2021. In B.C. coastal forests are classified as old-growth if they contain ...
The Ontario NDP is calling on the Ford government to take urgent action to protect forestry jobs after workers at the Gogama ...
Toronto — The Ontario government is investing $5.3 million, provided through the federal Forest Sector Safety Measures Fund, to help small and medium sized forest sector businesses offset the cost of ...
A growing movement of workers is calling for an environmentally responsible, labour-forward forest industry that lasts. But is it too late? Photo for The Tyee by Zoë Yunker. Across the Fraser River ...
Foreign lumberjacks are needed for the Prince George woods. Like the RCMP uniform was redesigned for women and Sikh members, and Hockey Night In Canada has a Punjabi language broadcast, now the iconic ...
Dated technologies, manual processes, socioeconomic realities of workers and the surge of the mobile web have created a recruitment crisis that costs corporate America and the overall U.S. economy at ...
Our journalism is supported by readers like you. Click here to support The Tyee. Job losses from halting old-growth logging are part of a long-term trend as mechanization, mill closures and raw log ...